Archive for
April, 2015

“Justice delayed is justice denied” rings true in my mind today as I think about Freddie Gray, his family, and the pain of the people of Baltimore.

It has been more than two weeks and the local police department has failed to provide a report regarding what happened to Gray. It is unacceptable that a young, healthy, 25 year-old man was brutally assaulted by the police, to the extent that his spinal cord was 80 percent severed. Gray went into coma and died a week after his injuries.Read more

(NEW YORK, NY, April 28, 2015) – Joining the global relief response to the disastrous 7.8 magnitude Nepal earthquake, Helping Hand for Relief and Development’s Emergency Response Program has immediately set to work.Read more

(NEW YORK, NY, April 28, 2015) – Joining the global relief response to the disastrous 7.8 magnitude Nepal earthquake, Helping Hand for Relief and Development’s Emergency Response Program has immediately set to work.Read more

(LOS ANGELES, CA 4/27/2015) – WhyIslam volunteers geared up early Sunday morning on April 26 at the Fiesta Broadway in downtown Los Angeles to give da’wah at the largest Hispanic event in the country.Read more

KATHMANDU, Nepal (KTRK) — A powerful earthquake killed at least 1,865 people across the Himalayan region, and rocking family members and loved ones across the world. A number of Houstonians scrambled to reach relatives as they heard the news.Read more

On the gorgeous weekend of April 18th, ICNA hosted its decennial da’wah booth at the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the largest festival its kind in the U.S., at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.Read more

(Washington, DC, April 19, 2015) — The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) the largest umbrella group of mainstream Muslim American organizations is aware of the painful history of over 30 nations fighting for over 4 years and the loss of over 37 million lives in World War I, including those of the Armenians.Read more

280 Muslim Delegates Lobby Congress on Historic First National Muslim Advocacy Day

In the first-ever National Muslim Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., over 280 delegates gathered from more than 20 states to meet with elected officials and congressional staffers. The US Council of Muslim Organizations, a coalition of leading national and local American Muslim organizations, sponsored the historic event.Read more

The Islamic Circle of North America’s annual conference was held at Empire State Plaza in Albany on Saturday, April 11, 2015. See some photos from the event by photographer Patrick Dodson of the Daily Gazette.Read more

(NEW YORK, NY, April 2, 2015) – ​The Islamic Circle of North America condemns the Thursday attack on Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya, in which 147 individuals were murdered and dozens wounded.Read more

Alhamdulillah, ICNA has decided to launch a national Seerah campaign to share the Prophet Muhammad’s (pbuh) universal message of peace and love, and his role in building the foundations of a movement devoted to truth and social justice.Read more